Press: Palestinian ambassador in Prague killed by semtex explosive
concealed in book

The former Palestinian ambassador in Prague, Muhammad Jamal, who died in an
explosion on New Year’s Day, was killed by a semtex charge concealed in a
book, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Tuesday quoting police
sources. An investigator told the paper the police was now only working
with one version of what happened; the Palestinian diplomat was going
through old things at the embassy with no knowledge there were two
explosive charges among them. The police said last month he died after the
charge exploded in his hands. The police are reportedly nearly 100 percent
positive the explosive was the Czechoslovak-made semtex from the 1970s.